The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1887-10-25


Wages in the iron and steel industry
thrcughout the country are very firm.
! Thirty-three thousand gas wells have
been drilled in Pennsylvania and New
York. 49,
A good many New England employees
are asking to be paid once month in-
New England ootton-mil!s are being
nus ia condition for the manufacture OF
higher and Gner grades of goods.
Silk.mills are to be built at Clifford,
Conn. and extensive silk factories are to
be erected at South Coventry, Conn.
Z South Carolina textile mills are selling
their sheetings and drills all over the
United States ADD Canada.
Some Of the labor leaders predict that
there will be less strikes this winter than
duriog any winter for several years.
Quite spirit for competition has
sprung up among the underwriters in
st. Louis, who have reduced rates from
81 IS TO so.
The English biast-furnace masters are
stadying American biast-furnaces and
mil practice with view of adopting such
features as will increase the output.
An immitation channels skin for DO.
nestle use has made it's appearance. 1t
il woven, but looks and feels like the
tsue leather, and, moreover, keeps its
softness after wettng.
Southern manufacturers are annoyed
by prosecutions OF work people who have
been injured by machinery There are
quite . number of suits for from s., 900 to
SO, coo for injuries sustained.
A new electrical compound called vul.
cabestos is made of rubber and asbestos,
and resists all temperatures, is acid and
water proof, aud can take safely the
highest electrical motive force used in
practical work.
A French torpedo-boat that a Hart
ford mechanic is making is to be run by
yapor from carbonic gas stored in liquid
form and vaporized by chemical heat.
The Initial pressure is TO be 900 pounds
to the square inch.
4 cotton factory IS going up at Dan
vile. Va, and one at Big Falls, n. C.
Oas with sc, 600 spindles, which will en-
pioy $50 persons, consuming $4,000 bales
Of cotton, will be built at Pelzer, S. c.
The capital will be 5000, 600
The foreign beet crop promises to be
200, 600 tons less than than it was last
year. and as the stock of sugar IN the
world 5000. 900 tons less than it was at
tais time last year some people think
taere will be an advance in sugar.
English locomotives are disappearing,
and AMI American pattern is taking their
piace. The American design is superior
in sill respects. The popularity of the
American engine is that the bulk of the
weight is over the drivers.
The mechanical engineers are of the
opinion that natural gas can be conducted
much longer distances than it has yet
aeen done by system of exhaustion at
the delivery end. To this end large ma.
chimes are being constructed.
A Sanford. Maine, inventor has spent
FIVE years in perfectipg carpet loom,
which he claims to be the fastest pile.
vice loom ia the world. running l25 picks
per minute. against 30. the fastest looms
nov in use in this country and in Eng
i,ud
The American petroleum exporters arc
regainiug their former control over British
markets, which were partially invaded
by Russian oil exporters. AT least q
go, 600 barrels OF petroleum were con.
samed in Great Britain last year. A
well has been bored 10 Egypt 1910 feet,
aad has reached good supply of oil.
Before 1898 a negro slave could not
possibly pick more than four pounds of
cotton in day, Whitney Invented the
eotton-gin and it at once became possible
for one person in an ordinary work day
to prepare over 800 pounds, thereby re-
ducing the price OF a yard of cotton goods
so dime that would have cost dollar.
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